Anna Higgs appointed commissioning editor of Film4 digital division
Anna Higgs has been appointed to new newly created role of commissioning editor for new digital division Film.4.0.
Film4.0, which was launched in May, will use the £15 million a year which has been pledged by Channel 4 until 2016 to ‘to find new talent and discover new ways of making, marketing and distributing films and engaging new audiences online’.
Higgs told the Guardian: “I am incredibly excited to be heading up this groundbreaking initiative. Working with a team that has such phenomenal talent relationships and having the freedom to take risks was simply an unmissable opportunity for me.
“I look forward to Film4.0 making a real impact on how new and established talent works with digital platforms as well as connecting to audiences in new and deeper, more rewarding, ways.”
Higgs will start in September and report to Katherine Butler, Film4's senior commissioning editor. She joins Film4 from the firm she co-founded: production company Quark Films.